Torun; Saturday, 05 August, 2017

I had an earlier breakfast than I had had on the previous day as I wanted to squeeze in a trip to the Tourn Historical Museum. Consequently I was at the door of the museum just as they were opening and ended up having staff following me around switching on lights and firing up displays as I approached them. The museum was very interesting and I should have devoted more time to it, but I had to speed up my visit when I saw the time and realised I needed to get back to the hotel.

I got back about 10 minutes before the deadline to checkout, but thankfully I had finished packing after breakfast so I was just able to grab my bag and head down to reception. After checking out they called me a taxi and I headed back to the central station.

I’d expected about a 20 minute wait at the station, but that was without the taxi driver who did the journey in at least half the time the taxi had taken on the journey into town on the Wednesday, and because the train ended up being delayed by 15 minutes.

Back in Warsaw I picked up a 24 hour transport ticket and caught the tram the one stop from the central station to the stop closest to my hotel.

I checked in, headed up to my room on the 28th floor to drop my stuff off, and take in the views, and then headed down into town.

My main stop for the afternoon was to take one of the hop-on-hop-off tour buses for a tour round the city. With the combination of a long route and heavy traffic by the time we got back to the start of the route it was fast approaching 7pm so I caught the tram round to the old town and went for a wander trying to find somewhere for dinner.

There was an event going on in the Rynek which meant that all the restaurants there were either full or refusing to accept a single diner (I’m assuming working on the basis they were busy enough they would rather have every seat taken). In the end I wandered down towards the end of the old town and managed to find a very nice pizza restaurant and ate there – my first night on the trip to not include pierogi!

I had a bit more of a wander around the old town before heading back to the tramstop and making my way back to my hotel and a good night sleep 280 odd foot in the sky.